The Anoinette (picture above) from Anoinette Patisserie is good. Okay, maybe ‘good’ is not the right word since it doesn’t convey the depth of my feelings. How about wonderful? Amazing? This is, without a doubt, one of the
Those of you who saw my Tweets yesterday about Berjaya Singapore Hotel will know that I was really pissed with them. While I understand a huge part of the fault can be blamed on hotel booking site Agoda (as you will read below), I really cannot stand for the rudeness of the staff at B...
Notice is hereby given that the next Makan Session will be held at Westlake Restaurant! Here are the details: Venue : Westlake, Blk 4 Queen's Road, #02-139 Time : 7pm (registration) Date : 7 October 2011 (Fri) Price : $25 per pax Menu 1. Kong Bak Pau 2. Kung Bao Chicken 3. Black Peppe...
Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment , transportation, and receipt of a person for sexual or economical exploitation by force, fraud, coercion or deception” in order to make a profit. The UN estimates that at any one time there are 2.5 million traffic...
Photo: Me with Ian Wright, travel host for Discovery Travel & Living. You know how we love to take travel photos? I think good food deserves to be recorded and remembered too - travel for your tastebuds! That's why I started this food blog with the philosophy "every meal an adventure!...
The Candy Empire Highwaist Shorts is aptly named for its array of color pop hues, which bring to mind our favourite M&Ms and Skittles candies! This is our most favorite pair of denim shorts yet, with its really awesome fit and comfy material! You've got to own a pair of these shorts! :D
maameemoomoo’s grilled saba with teriyaki sauce recipe , and I fell in love with it. Her grilled fish not only looked so deliciously beautiful, I also like the fact that they were oven-baked instead of grilled or pan-fried on the stove, saving lots of effort. My version, ever the lazy...
We welcome Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s announcement that his government would repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA) and the Emergency Ordinance. He said the changes are aimed at “having a modern, mature and functioning democracy which will continue to preserve public order...
Finally, Luxola.com has started and we have access to brands that were previously hard to get hold of, in Singapore. For example, Deborah Lipppmann nail polishes, DuWop, Face Atelier, Becca, etc... The best thing is, Luxola is based in Singapore, which means no crazy shipping charges,...
Hasbro’s Let’s Rock Elmo rocked the Toy Fair in New York earlier this year. I’ll leave it to the video presentation made at the Fair, and leave it to you to decide who is potentially more irritating, Elmo or the presenter: Hasbro very kindly gave Kai a basic set (without the ...
What got you started in Lomography? The first Lomo I’ve ever bought was actually for my girlfriend at the time. It was a WK Interact Supersampler in black that screamed HOT! So naturally I bought it for her. She smiled politely and took it. The Supersampler sat in her drawer for the l...
An unknown quality, perhaps the quasi-permanence of great age or the accumulation of organic matter and hollows in fissured trunks, turns certain trees into magnets for myriad arthropods. Some host assemblies of beetles; hunting carabids, dowdy weevils and plodding fungus beetles migh...
OK, firstly I must apologise for blogging about this so late. Portal is now free to download on Steam . This offer ends on 20 September 2011 which is today. But I guess they are using US time, so you have more than 24 hours to download it for free. Valve is giving away the game for fr...
My Hong Kong cousin gave me the MiPow Power Tube 6600 (online store ) which is retailing for SGD$125. It boosts a battery capacity of 6,600mAh and is made from aluminum case with durable anodized colors. The package includes charging tips for iPad/iPhone/iPod, Blackberry, HTC, Motorol...
It's important to get our priorities in life right at a young age. If not, we would spend our prime years chasing after stuff and then wonder why we are still not happy later on. Wed, Sep 14, 6:09pm UTC+8
It is important to have an emergency fund that can be used for your unexpected payments. This can save you a lot of interest payment. Suppose you need $5,000 in an emergency - for medical expenses or disruption in your income. If you borrow $5,000 on your credit card, you have to pay ...
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Senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all—he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But trouble arrives when an intriguing stranger Jerry (Coli...
Responding to a letter calling for more disclosure for the UBS investment, Jennifer Lewis, Head, Corporate Affairs and Communications, GIC, wrote a reply in the Today paper and also reported in the ST. She said that GIC’s time frame for investment is 20 years. Anyway, all the fears of...
Naturally, the Twittersphere, with its devil worshipers, could not resist coming up with possible reasons why Wildlife Reserves Singapore CEO Isabella Loh cancelled the popular Night Safari Halloween Horrors event, thereby flushing $1 million and 7 months of hard work by Singapore Pol...
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On our last day in Melbourne, we were hosted to a unique dining experience. Which I loved and I’m going to tell you why. Dinner was in a tramcar. How many dining experiences can beat that? Yes, in a genuine historical tramcar. They converted it into a restaurant. In such a dining sett...
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work has been taking a lot out of me lately, and i haven't been seeing friends for so long, i feel like a hermit :( the only people i've been seeing are my fellow blogshop laobanniangs, minions, suppliers & my boyfriend! sounds quite depressing right :( you'd never think that so much ...
For whatever reasons, this monkey decided to look for food out of forest and move to high human activities park/garden! Once more and more visitors feed the monkey, it is almost certain that the monkey will not go back to the forest. Whenever there's a conflict between wildlife & huma...
GIC is sitting on a substantial loss – close to SFr6.5bn ($7.4bn) – on its UBS stake, acquired for €11bn ($15bn) three and a half years ago. At the time, it signalled its intention to hold the investment for as long as 30 years, though recent events may have given it cause to reconsid...
Part self help book, part fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by leadership guru Robin Sharma is a slim volume that packs powerful life and leadership lessons in the form of a novel. Written in a semi-autobiographical manner - Sharma himself was a hotshot lawyer before he switched pa...
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First of all, I must make a huge statement that I am extremely loyal to my national carrier. I fly everywhere on Singapore Airlines, where possible and I think they are the BEST , hands down. But this review is on my flight experience on Jetstar because they sponsored my flight from M...
Daily Disclosure - Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: PR skills fail: WRS CEO, Isabella Loh edition - Thoughts of a Cynical Investor : A TLC where losing $1m is “peanuts” - Everything Also Complain: Bombing Parliament after failing a job interview - All Things Singapore: Of the ISA. T...
I was there as a guest to “review” the workshop, and if I would recommend to my readers, I’d do a blog post on it. Well, I’m glad to say I definitely would! If you’re looking to kick start your makeup routine and learn a whole lot about makeup (and play with it!) then I highly recomme...
I am a Singaporean PR with a background in the financial services sector. I am quite appalled at much of what goes on here in terms of mis-selling of products and services by the finance-related sectors. I am glad that you have managed to take on some of these issues and wish that the...
